The Southern Herald (Liberty, Miss.) 1866-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,714 issues from 1866 to 1922, published in Liberty, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.
Situated on the Louisiana border in the southwest corner of Mississippi, Amite County was created in 1809 in the Mississippi Territory, before statehood in 1817. With flat to hilly terrain and sandy and silt loam soil, the area was a rich agricultural and timber-growing region, forested with longleaf yellow pine. Cotton reigned supreme in antebellum Amite County; diversification after the Civil War added such profitable crops as corn, oats, potatoes, jute, rice, and sugar cane. Primarily rural, even in the early 20th century, industry in the county included cotton gins and grist and saw mills. The establishment of a seat of government to be known as Liberty was also authorized in 1809, and the town, near a branch of the Amite River, was incorporated in 1828.
One of the longest-running newspapers in the state, the weekly Southern Herald (1866-current) began in 1825 as the Amite Democrat (1825-66). When the title changed in 1866, P. R. Brewer owned the newspaper. In 1866 the masthead declared that the paper was “Devoted to Literature, News &c.” Brewer ran the Democrat-affiliated Herald until 1892, when Asa G. Stratton purchased the newspaper; it remained in Stratton’s family until 1969. The Southern Herald is still published in 2015 as a weekly.
Content was fairly consistent throughout the Southern Herald‘s run: political editorials advocating southern Democratic views, all types of legislative news, poetry and serialized stories, current news, advertisements, death and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Liberty, Mississippi, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress